Tom Waits - Time (Not a cover, but there is a wonderful cover of it by Tori Amos)If you only have time to listen to one of these three songs, make it this one. Seriously.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_eR0IVSOhY

Thanks Victor, UnhappyCamper, and Jude for your posts. I haven't been on here in a while, but have been listening to two of my favorite songs tonight from one of the greatest bands (in my opinion). I had previously posted the first song but that link is broken now so I'm reposting it.

I love the words of this song it really hits home for me and makes me think.The video is very real for me about the darkness that lives in side, that running is not the way but acceptance of the passed good or bad we can then heal.I hope you enjoy!!

And the walls kept tumbling downIn the city that we loveGrey clouds roll over the hillsBringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes,Does it almost feel likeNothing changed at all?And if you close your eyes,Does it almost feel likeYou've been here before?How am I gonna be an optimist about this?How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

We were caught up and lost in all of our vicesIn your pose as the dust settled around us

And the walls kept tumbling downIn the city that we loveGrey clouds roll over the hillsBringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes,Does it almost feel likeNothing changed at all?And if you close your eyes,Does it almost feel likeYou've been here before?How am I gonna be an optimist about this?How am I gonna be an optimist about this?If you close your eyes

Eh-eh-o eh-o [8x]

Oh where do we begin?The rubble or our sins?Oh oh where do we begin?The rubble or our sins?

And the walls kept tumbling downIn the city that we loveGrey clouds roll over the hillsBringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes,Does it almost feel likeNothing changed at all?And if you close your eyes,Does it almost feel likeYou've been here before?How am I gonna be an optimist about this?How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing

_________________________
Bluesky

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.Only I will remain." Frank Herbert

You'll never understand until you've been there. Been down so much, that all you can manage to do now is sit there. Thinking back at all the choices that you made to get there. Pumping a fist to the sky telling god "it ain't fair." But yo, we ain't there. How could it be with all this devastation and desperation surrounding me. So put me in the ground 'cause this life has just been pounded out of me, The only reason I ain't sleeping now 'cause I got mouths to feed. Why can't I catch a break? Why can't I step away and wake up one morning and think that things wont be a mess today. I gotta break the cycle somehow, sick of this pain, im sick of living this way. Okay, I'm done now. Not having fun now, there's just so many reasons. Feel as if my soul's a broken puzzle and I'm missing pieces. It's real easy for you to judge them when you see them, But you'll never truly understand unless you've ever been there. I've been there, a place where hope was thin in the air. If things are gonna get better tell me a 'when' and a 'where'. Sitting and staring in the mirror, nobody's there, That I know, feeling so alone and I'm scared that nobody cares. My nights consist of so many prayers. I once had so many dreams, I once was going somewhere. Try and following steps before you start to compare, Me to you and you don't know me, now you think that that's fair? I never thought my path would lead me to the point I'm at now. But before they get up, some people gotta fall down. Some fall harder than others, they thought they had it all down. Me, I take these experience and jot them all down. But how do you cope when you think that hope is nowhere around? How do you know where to go if you haven't been found? Yo, I'm saying it's draining living this pain that I'm in. You're quick to judge me but you haven't been the places I've been, c'mon.

This is a newer song out on the radio now, and it's a beautiful song with a great, uplifting message. I know there are a lot of guys here who feel less than adequate due to the side effects of the abuse. Hopefully you have some people in your lives that do love you unconditionally, and you should all know that there are many guys on here that truly believe these lyrics about their fellow survivors.

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